This weekend was another happy college football weekend for our family, if you don't count the outcome of the game. It was especially delicious for us because all our children were there, our son-in-law, our grandson, other relatives and lots of friends, old and new. Football weekends are always very busy and loud with cannons,… Continue reading Breaking News
Holy spaces, sanctuary places, safe people are already embedded into our real lives. On my morning walk through a nearby wooded area, there is a particular stretch of the walk that I call my sanctuary. The trees form an arch. Light filters through the trees in a way that takes my eyes up every time.… Continue reading Sanctuary Places and People
In days gone by, a milestone was literally a stone or pile of stones which marked the distance along a route. A milestone reassured a traveler of the distance he/she had traveled and that they were still on the right path. Now it also means an action or event that signifies a change in a… Continue reading Milestones
I was loading my car early in the morning to head home from my daughter's house to mine, readying myself for the five-hour drive, when I saw it. Actually, the smell of it came before the seeing. It stopped me in my tracks, a bucket of dead skunks. Okay, it was a bucket of two dead skunks but… Continue reading A Bucket of Skunks
For several years now, I've chosen a word to guide me in prayer, study and focus. This was not my idea. It is a different kind of Spiritual Discipline suggested by the work of Rachel Olsen and Mike Ashcraft. You can read more about it at http://www.myoneword.org. At the end of each year, I start making a… Continue reading New
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